I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.

I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention.

There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn.

She's so obnoxious. Like a whole Saturday night drunk tank full of obnoxious packed into one little body." Detective Cavuto

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.